Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. CHINA ISSUE Let me congratulate you on the special issue of October...
...Madison, Wis...
...I find Ernst's reaction deficient in compassion and somewhat inhumanly and callously expressed...
...Then came the October 27 issue, with the equally exciting full-cover photo of a Faubus press conference, and I realized that The New Leader had actually taken another big step forward...
...ROLAND SCHARF As an old subscriber to The New Leader, I have had the magazine around my home for quite some time, but somehow friends never seemed to notice it...
...As you know, suicide is a very valid index for the detection of individual freedom...
...The difference that this new cover format makes in the appearance of the magazine is, I think, far greater than you in the editorial office can realize...
...Moreover, his attitude is also objectionable on other grounds...
...Duluth, Minn...
...Washington, D. C. Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research ROGER HILSMAN...
...Roxbury, Mass...
...CHINA ISSUE Let me congratulate you on the special issue of October 20, "Communist China: Power and Prospects" by Richard L. Walker...
...SELIC PERLMAN NEW COVER When the October 20 issue on Communist China arrived, I assumed that the striking full-cover photo was being used merely because this was a special issue...
...Brooklyn ALLEN DURHAM SOVIET SUICIDES Morris Ernst writes in his letter of October 27: "One of the most hopeful signs I found in Russia during my recent visit was the admission by officials of their concern over suicides among students who flunked examinations for higher education...
...I have just spent several hours reading it from cover to cover and it is magnificent...
...GEORGE ROMAIN Adding a picture cover to The New Leader is like adding fascinating article to each issue...
...GEORGE GIBIAN 'DEATH WISH' If Professor Lewis S. Feuer will examine recent literature on nuclear strategy, be will find little support for the statement in his central idea to his whole argument ("The Politics of the Death Wish," NL, September 1) that "the first to begin a thermonuclear war will presumably not be among the survivors What worries so many of us who have worked in the field of military strategy is that it is the first to begin a thermonuclear war who may turn out to be the only survivors...
...I rarely stopped to look at the previous rather dull front page, but now I look forward to seeing what will turn up each week...
...It is indecent to rejoice over the suicides of wretched human beings as "hopeful signs...
...Now you have carried this quality to the outside and the combination is most welcome...
...DEAR EDITOR The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...Did it not occur to him that the students' suicides might be a sign of the very opposite of freedom, very likely motivated at least in part by the dim prospects (due to lack of economic and other opportunities and freedoms) for those in Soviet Russia who do not have university education...
...Northampton, Mass...
...I first realized this during the last two weeks when, apparently because of the new picture cover, many friends who must have seen the magazine before suddenly became aware of it...
...New York City SANFORD GREEN Inside, The New Leader has always carried material which ranks with the nation's best journalistic efforts, particularly where weeklies are concerned...
...I sincerely hope that you will not be forced to backtrack...
Vol. 41 • November 1958 • No. 40
